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To the craziest, most tiring, most stretching semester of my entire life; here’s to the END of it!

 

The feeling of relieve is indescribable.

I ♥

Travelling on a bus at night.
Stopping at rest stops in the wee hours of the morning.
Sitting in an airplane as it takes off from the ground and as it lands.
Snuggling up in bed with a mug of hot coffee and a good on a rainy day.
Having dinner al fresco in the evening, just before the sun sets and it’s windy.
Cosy home-cooked dinners with my best friends and jazz music playing in the background.
Swings.
The sea.
Hotels.
The way libraries smell.
All kinds of flowers.
Zoos and aquatic parks.
Sleeping in.
Breakfast.
Taking walks when it’s windy.
CHRISTMAS!
Cold, rainy days.
Cendol on rainy days.
Quiet day-offs.
Camping and river hiking up to the waterfall.
Lakesides.
Picnics when it’s not hot out.
Kittens :)
Cranberry muffins.
Talking to Mr. God while watching the sun rise in the morning.

;)

 

♥

How was your day, sugar?

Home.

Fuh. It's been a full day man. One activity after another, only stopped for chicken rice - very nice :)

But I'm glad to be home. This is what it's like to be home.

Sometimes its a bit too much. Run here, run here. No time to stop, think and be alone, not like in uni. But I wouldn't have it any other way. I love it here! I love the sights, the sounds, the smells, the taste of PJ. PJ tastes like cranberry muffins.

Though I guess once uni ends (and with it, Kajang will end for me too), I would have to learn to create pauses for myself, because pauses are really good. One should not do without pauses.

LYPG today was awesome. We continued the plowing work, it's not over yet. But we're getting there! I can just feel it...we're getting there! Soon! Soon! Keep it up, comrates. Don't back down! Press on! We'll see it in no time.

Went for Joshua Chua's birthday party, and I'm really glad we did.

Happy Birthday Joshua!

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He cause His face to shine upon you, and give you peace :)

FY is getting married next week! The First among us! Congrats! Wowwow!! :) Exciting!

7 days to Raya! Better makan puas-puas while the Ramadan Bazaars are still in town. After that we'd have to wait a whole year!

Today I...

Went to church in the morning. Thank You for a wonderful time, Lord :)

Sat down on the landing in front of the entrance with Inkkie and Jack, and let them brainwash me.

Had kopi ais with Lisa, Yeuwks, James and Mr. Lee. Couldn't finish my cuppa, so I gave Mr. Lee the rest. Cost RM 1.50.

Accompanied Lisa to Tmn. Megah to sign for her *ehhem* grey new toy. There were a lot of papers to sign. We perah-ed freegifts out of the salesman, till we couldn't think of anything else to ask for.

Had limau madu ais at the Old Town Kopi Tiam, which cost RM 3.60. CRAZY EXPENSIVE RIGHT? ...I contradict myself. I keep saying it, but I keep going back there.

After helping to load and unload some children's books, went to KL with Mr. Lee. RELA workers were catching foreigners and cramming and shoving them into trucks; like dogs being sent to the pound. It was hot enough outside, imagine what it was like inside the truck. I saw it as an abuse of power of the part of the RELA, and a violation of the basic human rights of the foreigners - unfair, because the foreigners were helpless. I was saddened and wondered what I could do, what we all could do to change things.

Made friends with the purse salesman in KL Sentral, who told me he's eaten crocodile and elephant meat, and monkey's brains out of a monkey while it's still alive. He says the shop's in Pudu. It's too much. I'm going to report this to SPCA.

Had dinner out of a bento box, and then Mr. Lee and I watched UP!. In 3-D! We had to wear some special reflective glasses to see the 3-D effects. Coolness to fullness!

*Some people in front of us snuck in and ate some Ohmygosh-smelly-until-can-faint something disgusting. It smelt like this - imagine a cross between chow-tow-foo, sweaty feet that have been in a shoe for too long and herbal chicken soup. It smelt like that, and I suspect that was what it was. I couldn't take the stink - yes, stink - after awhile, so I whispered as gently and politely as I could, without gagging, "Excuse me, the smell from the stuff you're eating is really strong. Do you mind not eating it here?" And the guy replied "Ok, ok". Hmmmph! Inconsiderate AND rude! We should have (would have) reported them, had we not (too) snuck in Krispy Kreme. But Krispy Kreme does NOT emit a pungent odour!

After Mr. Lee had enough of looking at cameras, we had coffee in Austin Chase in Pavillion. Cynthia and Goh said we should. So we did. I recommend the iced cappuccino! Yums! :)

Bought bread which was going cheap (because they were about to close) from Bread Talk. 5 breads for RM 10!

There were people throwing coconuts on the street in Brickfields. At 11 pm! Made friends with an Aunty standing nearby who told me it was a hindu god's birthday. I don't understand the throwing coconuts part though.

Got home, washed my face and blogged about today.

Day 17 : Church helping the migrant people in Malaysia

"In war,

the strong make slaves of the weak,

and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.

We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die.

We toil for them all day long,

and they heap up gold in their coffers,

and our children fade away before their time,

and the faces of those we love become hard and evil.

We tread out grapes, and another drinks the wine.

We sow the corn, and our own board is empty.

We have chains, though no eye beholds them;

and we are slaves, though men call us free."

The Weaver,

The Young King

In these 40 days of prayer and fasting, let us remember the downtrodden and do good. Let us see the poor and needy and show kindness and love.

G'nite, sugar

When I start eating like this, I know it's coming.

It's been the First Week. And I've been getting a lot of exercise, brisk walking around the campus looking for lecturers, trying to take just the right subject at just the right time because my class times keep clashing, because I'm taking too many subjects.
Much thanks be to Father in Heaven for letting me take the subject I really wanted to take. I almost didn't get to. But nothing is too difficult for my tycoon Dad up there. :)

Meeting my old friends again - the used bookstore and Nescafe cafe - has been greatly comforting. I shall hit the pool soon.

While cleaning out our mini-room on Monday, I found a dead cockroach under my bed. It has been there, dead, for so long that when I tried to sweep its (yech) rotting shell onto a dustpan with a broom, it quite literally just fell apart. There was nothing left of its body to hold its head, feelers, legs and (shudder) wings together. I am still trying to recover from the fact that a cockroach has been decaying under my very being for a WHOLE SEMESTER!!!

Urgh. *Shudder.

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We (Mich and I) have changed the decor of our mini-room. We've arranged our beds and tables to form a square and we now have a small space in the middle where we can put a rug and dance about, or sit down and talk nonsense if we wanted to. So much space for activities! This is what I call optimizing space; and I can't imagine why we didn't think of this arrangement before!!!

Mich says it's because we were "saving it for this year".

We have some new neighbours too! Some of them are pretty dodgy, though. The ones living next to us are ok - nice, quiet, respectful boys studying at the vocational school near here. The ones staying in the lot opposite to ours, however, keep waving at us (they can see through mine and Mich's windows into our room). It doesn't help that our windows are pretty huge. So now we keep our curtains drawn most of the time.
Because of them, I was at first a little apprehensive to hoist my colours, if you know what I mean. But then I thought to myself, "why should I let a couple of itchy, bored boys keep me from wearing clean underwear?!". At present, our room is as colourful as ever. :D

So, I've reached Friday (phew!). And to think it's only been the first week! As He has been reminding me over and over again during the holidays; I gotta hold on tight to the True Source, to Him, Jesus.
He will carry me through
Until the battle's done
and the victory is won
My God will carry me through.

Things are moving pretty slowly. Slow like snail. But maybe sometimes slow is good. Good is steady. Steady is snail. Slow is steady.
Slow and steady :)

Haha.
Well, hello weekend! I've waited a whole week for you!

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He said, "G'nite, sugar". Hehe :)

A new beginning.

"...the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes". (Psalm 118:23)

Every blessing You pour out I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
"Blessed be Your Glorious Name".

some new and old things.

It's durian season now.

There's a whole longgok of durian in a sack from Suateng downstairs. I can smell them from here, but I haven't touched any. I've been waiting, wanting this, Durian Season, since February. But now that it's here, I find that I don't really want it anymore.

It's funny how that happens, isn't it? We imagine something to be thoroughly amazing when we don't have it, even adding in our own 'bits of nice' to it, but when we have it for real, we find that we're unable to truly menghayati because we've used up everything on the imaginary.

My Papa tells me to "Learn to spend wisely".

In recent times, Sue Ann, Stephy and I went on a food fast, and then on a food fest in Seremban, Melaka and then Kluang; where we had (no meals and then) many meals in a single meal. :D
Many thanks to God, Colin, Makkoh, Cathy, Tim, Jules, Wai Yan, Isaac, Paulus, Joan, Joy, aunty and uncle Lee and Abigail for making it all so memorable for us :) We shall do it again!

Lydia + Li Yit = LyYit or LiDia soon. Boy oh boy, do I love weddings!! :)

Am currently waiting still (I almost always am, aren't I?) may it be for not too much longer ...anyhow, I bet I'll learn treasures from this. Am slightly nervous; so please Lord, teach me to trust You more and cling on to that trust, or rather to You.
And to you
Who are waiting too,
Be of stout heart, Dear One
Because I know; if I were to know anything it would be this : That He loves us and He will walk us to the end, wherever that end may be.

Everyday conversations

p [i] n g. says:
my pimples getting worse la :( :( :(
Schmae says:
stop touching it!
sue yin says:
yea stop touching it!
sue yin says:
wanna go for facial anot?
sue yin says:
yea, he looks kwai lo
.p [i] n g. says:
yar..nice nose!!
.p [i] n g. says:
i want nose job.hahahah
Schmae says:
...

This is what I've had to put up with the past 14 years.

Time again.

I always notice the time.




















I thought it was Saturday already because today (it's now Friday in the 2.38 a.m.) I woke up at seven a.m., which is something like eight hours earlier than I normally do. And then just now at 2.28 (now it's 2.39), it felt like TWO days have passed instead of one, felt a lot longer than it usually does.

I really should start waking up earlier.

The highlights of the day were :

• The dodgy transaction was quick and painless (Thank You, Lord)
• Mak Yee and I met up for diluted Japanese Green Tea and Nyonya food, which was great (both the meet up and the food. Definitely not the green tea tho. yech. Don't go to O*iental Cra*ings)

Mak Yee :)

7.40 a.m.

Being up at this hour - it's not even really bright out yet - has it perks. For one thing, hot coffee actually tastes nice and warm, like hot coffee should.
It's also really cold because it rained last night, and I know it won't be this cold for long (I give it two hours for the heatwave to come back) and I should take advantage of the morning and go for a walk or something. But I'm scared 0f getting my arm slashed by desperate foreign workers who would do anything for some petty cash :(

Ok, ok. One shouldn't be so gloomy and dreary in the morning, especially on a beautiful morning such as this. The birds are chirping outside, so I should chirp too.

Lovely morning! :)

Life in an oven.

So,

complain.
The long awaited holidays are finally here. When I was not on holiday, I had all sorts of plans for these next two months. Work? Not work? Shop? But how to shop without work? Go for MYPG/FWP/etc? Who would hire me for work for only one month, then?
So, despite having all these plans - too many in fact - I'm now sitting here; it's the first day of my 2 month (on the calendar, May has 31 days and June has 30) break, and I find myself wondering what to do with, well, myself.
Actually there are alot of things I could do, all the stuff I'd left for later for all the times I had procrastinated.
Like clean out the fish bowl.
Finish making last year's Christmas present that I owe everyone.
Finish reading the pile of books that I had gone through halfway. (and had left for later because I found something more enjoyable to read)
Clean out my closet.
Clean my room.

But I just don't want to do them now, maybe later. Heh.

It doesn't help that it's suuuuuuuper hot and the sky is as blue as kerabu (no sign of rain), and the aircond in my room went *pok* yesterday and wouldn't turn on since.

Today, all I've done is make myself a mug on Nescafe Regular and put ice.

That's pretty good for a hot day's worth, don't you think? :)

Second last day! :D

I heart P.J, of course.

Because P.J. is home to...only the awesomemest pasar malams in the whole world! But in a way, I'll miss being here (in Bangi) also. I'll miss :

my housemates (ahem, better say first in case one of them reads this).
Metro Kajang Ground Floor Mamak Tom Yam - yum!
can sleep and wake up anytime I want without getting nagged at. (yes, even at 22!)
roaming aimlessly (exploring) Kajang town and yonder.
the quiet, slow, uncongested lifestyle.
Nasi Lemak in the mornings.
my room here is neater than back home.
the UKM library.

but well, goodbye Bangi. I love P.J. more than you. :)

till July only la, then it's back to school. So don't get too excited.

Just like old times.

Joseph and Shannon came over with a LOT of McDonald's for a good time of catching up. (And to celebrate my long past birthday).

Haha. Thanks guys :)

2.36 a.m. , Thursday in the wee hours . I'll just post in this old (post) bcos I like the green smiling gecko. It's so darn cute.
Am up because I downed some packet cappuccino (Indocafe) that doesn't taste anything like cappucino. Ah well, at least it keeps me awake. I have two tests tomorrow, and a pile of articles and notes to read before those two tests.
And as usual I'm being easily distracted, first by lisalisa! and rachieboo and shannon and jo; then by some Tomato Cottage Fries; then bt Joshua Chin's new blog that has three posts and now by the green smiling gecko. It's darn cute, isn't it.

I'm supposed to be studying, and I'm supposed to be on diet. Will I make it? Well, we'll see.

From the Land of no U-turns

It's the 13th week! Woooohooo! :D
Next week will be the 14th and last week of my 4th semester and second year in UKM and then....holidays! Yaaaaaaayyy!!
I know...I ought to behave more grown up. But what can I say? I still put up a fight going to school.
I was sent to kindergarden at the age of 3, and even though I went to Eden (which is a 5 minute walk from my house), my parents had to charter a bus sekolah to bring me to kindergarden because I would throw a fit every morning and refuse to walk to school.
It was the same every morning when I got to primary school and in high school. And same bus, driven by Uncle Bas picked me up every morning, for 12 years.
Now the battle is within myself. Uncle Bas doesn't pick me up anymore, I drive myself to class; and I have no one to argue with about going to school, except myself. It's been a long battle. Haha. Hats off to Uncle Bas who put up with me all those years.



















(When Edmund, my crazy housemate decided he wanted to arrange our shoes, and our Middle-Eastern neighbours' shoes outside our house)
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Lead us to greater heights

WE at the Malaysia Think-Tank look forward to your upcoming appointment. We apologise for not being able to address you by name yet, as that would transgress the prerogative of His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Your judgment and wisdom will affect the fate of our democracy and the future of 27 million Malaysians. We urge and beseech you to lead Malaysia to greater heights in your new office by pursuing the ideals espoused by our Proclamation of Independence and other founding documents, and by continuing the narrative towards freedom and prosperity that our various histories have woven to get to where we are today.

We implore you to act upon the following:

» Defend the rule of law. Observe, protect and advance the rule of law, by: respecting the independence of the judiciary; restoring dignity to our courts; and upholding the supremacy of the constitution so that Malaysians from every background may understand and uphold it too

» Liberate the people. Free the people from the despair of poverty and the crutches of dependency, by: encouraging entrepreneurship, cutting bureaucracy and ensuring that the tax regime does not stifle growth and innovation; allowing individuals to mature and develop, to make mistakes and learn from them, and to be able to work and play in an environment that suits them best; and by allowing Malaysians to believe in God and to be loyal to King and country in their own manner.

» Limit the role of government. Reinforce our federal structure, by: acknowledging that central government does not have the answers to everything; restoring the rightful powers of the state governments; further decentralising power where it will result in greater competition and efficient delivery of services; and to gain the cooperation of states run by different political parties.

» Free the market. Uphold our inclination towards free markets; let the rakyat access the goods and services they prefer without the protectionism that cripples competition; and recognise that the welfare of the people can be advanced with the help of civil society collaborating with the private sector.

We believe passionately and resolutely that effective leadership and urgent action on your part on these four principles will unite the people and ensure continued peace and prosperity, and enable Malaysia to become the envy of the world, so that every Malaysian citizen can confidently say, as Tunku Abdul Rahman so proclaimed upon the ancient fields of Malacca, that we are a nation "founded upon the principles of liberty and justice".

Tunku ‘Abidin Muhriz
Wan Mohd Firdaus Wan
Mohd Fuaad
Wan Saiful Wan Jan

Letters, The Sun, April 2 '09

Chinese New Year

Is about family






























































Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. (Anon)

And shall I fear
That there is anything that men hold dear
Thou would'st deprive me of,
And nothing give in place?

That is not so -
For I can see Thy face
And I can hear Thee now:

"My child, I died for Thee.
And if the gift of love and life
You took from Me,
Shall I one precious thing withhold -
One beautiful and bright,
One pure and precious thing withhold?
My child, it cannot be."
- Betty Scott Stam

Jesus, YOU'RE the Reason

I have never walked on water, felt the waves beneath my feet
But at Your Word, Lord, I receive Your faith to walk on oceans deep

And I remember how You found me in the very same place
All my failings, sure they would have drowned me
Still You made a way

You are my Freedom,
Jesus You're the reason I'm kneeling again at Your throne
Where would I be without You here in my life?
Here in my life

You have said that all the heavens
Sing for joy at one who finds the way to freedom,
Truth of Jesus
Brought from death into His life

And I remember how You saw me
Through the eyes of Your grace
And though the cost was Your beloved for me
Still You made a way

You are my Freedom,
Jesus You're the reason I'm kneeling again at Your throne
Where would I be without You here in my life?
Here in my life

My Jesus, how I love You.